Carmen Patibulare'to H. S. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HBIBJKL BMNMO P QNBNBRSR TUVUWXVXTree Old Tree of the Triple Crook | A |
And the rope of the Black Election | B |
'Tis the faith of the Fool that a race you rule | C |
Can never achieve perfection | B |
So 'It's O for the time of the new Sublime | D |
And the better than human way | E |
When the Rat poor beast shall come to his own | F |
And the Wolf shall have his day ' | G |
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For Tree Old Tree of the Triple Beam | H |
And the power of provocation | B |
You have cockered the Brute with your dreadful fruit | I |
Till your fruit is mere stupration | B |
And 'It's how should we rise to be pure and wise | J |
And how can we choose but fall | K |
So long as the Hangman makes us dread | L |
And the Noose floats free for all ' | - |
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So Tree Old Tree of the Triple Coign | B |
And the trick there's no recalling | M |
They will haggle and hew till they hack you through | N |
And at last they lay you sprawling | M |
When 'Hey for the hour of the race in flower | O |
And the long good bye to sin ' | - |
And for the lack the fires of Hell gone out | P |
Of the fuel to keep them in ' | - |
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But Tree Old Tree of the Triple Bough | Q |
And the ghastly Dreams that tend you | N |
Your growth began with the life of Man | B |
And only his death can end you | N |
They may tug in line at your hempen twine | B |
They may flourish with axe and saw | R |
But your taproot drinks of the Sacred Springs | S |
In the living rock of Law | R |
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And Tree Old Tree of the Triple Fork | T |
When the spent sun reels and blunders | U |
Down a welkin lit with the flare of the Pit | V |
As it seethes in spate and thunders | U |
Stern on the glare of the tortured air | W |
Your lines august shall gloom | X |
And your master beam be the last thing whelmed | V |
In the ruining roar of Doom | X |
William Ernest Henley
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